El Palacio Plática

Sunday, February 22nd, 2pm, at Donnelly Library, 3rd floor.

Free and open to all.

Join Adelita M. Medina and Myrriah Gómez at New Mexico Highlands University’s Donnelly Library to talk aboutChicana activism in Las Vegas during the 1960s and ‘70s. Medina’s black and white photographs, taken in Las Vegas during El Movimiento Chicano, will be projected throughout the conversation. The plática will cover how women and children were directly involved in the activism during El Movimiento and there will be opportunities for community members to join the conversation and add their own stories and memories from this moment in Las Vegas’s past. Copies of the Winter 2025 issue of El Palacio, featuring Myrriah Gomez’s article about Adelita M. Medina’s photos and Chicana activism in Las Vegas, will be available for sale.